Haiti Cholera Outbreak Spreads to Port-au-Prince Prison
By Staff, BBC | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. How does cholera manage to move from the Artibonite River to a Port-au-Prince prison?
Continue reading →Genocide in Haiti: Carelessness or Malice?
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The United Nations and 42 non-governmental organizations (NGO) are asking to be paid about $600 for every Haitian to be contaminated with cholera. There is money in cholera.
Continue reading →The People Rise Up in Haiti. Indict the U.N. and Government for Introducing and Distributing Cholera, and for Organizing Bogus Elections
By Staff, Haitian Truth | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Three news bulletins on the Nov 18, 2010 anniversary of the Bataille de Vertieres and the popular uprisings when Haitians learned about MINUSTAH’s importation of cholera into the country.
Continue reading →UN Faces Heat Over Haiti Cholera
By Staff, Al Jazeera. Locals in Haiti’s second city of Cap Haitien have clashed with U.N. peacekeepers for a second consecutive day, throwing stones at patrolling teams and calling for their removal from the country after the deaths of at least two people during a protest over an outbreak of cholera that has killed at least 1,000 people. Some Haitians blame Nepalese peacekeepers for the epidemic.
Continue reading →Interview With President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, by Nicolas Rossier
Interview of President Aristide with Nicolas Rossier. “When we say democracy we have to mean what we say.” Jean-Bertrand Aristide, during his forced exile in South Africa.
Continue reading →Corporate Media Misleads Public on Cholera in Haiti. We Want to Know Why
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Hurricane Tomas swept through the Grande Anse region of Haiti last weekend, destroying over 1,000 homes and killing more than 30 people. I would challenge readers to find the words Grande Anse in any English-language news of Haiti.
Continue reading →Cholera for Sale In a Blue Plastic Bag: Infected Water Distributed in Haiti as Purified
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. As of October 28, 2010, over 300 Haitians have died and over 4,000 have fallen ill of cholera. The press immediately blamed “poor sanitation in the camps” for the outbreak, although the outbreak began in the pristine small towns of St. Marc and Mirebalais that had not suffered any earthquake damage.
Continue reading →A Cholera Outbreak Introduced Into Haiti by a Foreign Source
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. To blame Haiti’s cholera outbreak on overcrowding and poor sanitation, as is routinely done in the news, is to suggest the impossible: that Vibrio cholera can spontaneously appear out of thin air though there’s been no record of cholera on the island in more than century.
Continue reading →Almost All of Port-au-Prince’s ‘Gingerbread Houses’ Managed to Survive the Quake
By Haitian Truth | Al Jazeera (video). Despite the billions of dollars worth of damage caused by the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in January, many of the capital’s oldest buildings still stand.
Continue reading →Haiti: U.N. Troops Attack Anti-U.N. Protest
By Staff, Weekly News Update Oct 2010. MINUSTAH security forces reacted violently to an anti-U.N. protest on October 15, with a plainclothes guard striking a protester and a Jordanian soldier firing a warning shot. AP journalists said a Haitian police agent hit protesters with his rifle and a U.N. vehicle “pushed through the crowd, knocking over protesters and journalists.”
Continue reading →Haitians Demand UN Takes Its Colonial Army MINUSTAH Out!
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. It is high time to bid good riddance to MINUSTAH [Mission des Nations Unies pour la (de)Stabilisation en Haiti], a colonial occupation army that has terrorized Haiti for the last six years and overseen its sham presidential and legislative elections.
Continue reading →Brazil and ‘Peacekeeping’: Policy, Not Altruism
By staff, The Economist. Haiti was significant not just because this was the first mission Brazil commanded, but also because it showed that the government was willing to stretch what until then had been an article of foreign-policy faith: non-interference in other countries’ internal affairs.
Continue reading →Haiti: A Six-Month Report Without Cute Baby Pictures or Demands for Aid Money
By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Aid money comes with strings attached, and perhaps the most pernicious strings of all have been the projects to depopulate Haiti of its youngest citizens. Over 1,100 children were removed from Haiti to the U.S., on U.S. aircrafts and from a U.S.-controlled airport, immediately after the earthquake.
Continue reading →Spain Reveals Cuba’s Plan to Free All Political Prisoners
By Anita Brooks, The Independent UK. The Spanish Foreign Minister yesterday told his country’s parliament that Cuba would soon release all political prisoners and suggested that the E.U. and U.S. could respond by softening longstanding sanctions against the island nation.
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